Top 10 stories of the day: Soshanguve burned bodies | Dog shoots owner | Moeletsi Mbeki on Rasool ‘provoking’ Americans

In today’s news update, four partially burned bodies with gunshot wounds were found in Soshanguve on Saturday.

Meanwhile, an American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun.

Furthermore, political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki says he believes that former South African ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was “provoking” the Americans with his remarks about Donald Trump.

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News Today: 22 March 2025

Four shot dead and partially burned, eight injured in Soshanguve

Police have found four partially burned bodies with gunshot wounds at Marry Me informal settlement extension 3 on Saturday.

According to police spokesperson Brigadier Brenda Muridili, police responded to the scene about 6am, and were told by witnesses that other victims had been taken to hospital.

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Dog shoots man in bed, ‘paw stuck in trigger’

An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said Wednesday.

The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner. He was shot by the dog, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in hospital.

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WATCH: ‘Rasool provoked Trump with global white supremacist remarks’ – Mbeki

Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki says he believes that former South African ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was “provoking” the Americans with his remarks about Donald Trump (and, later, Elon Musk) leading a “global white supremacist movement”.

Rasool was expelled from the US by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after his participation in a seminar by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection about Trump’s policy stance on South Africa.

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Two more drug mules arrested at OR Tambo Airport

The South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested two more suspected drug mules at the OR Tambo International Airport.

According to Lieutenant-Colonel Amanda van Wyk, a 24-year-old Brazilian man and a 51-year-old South African woman who had travelled on the same flight from São Paulo, Brazil, were intercepted by police upon their arrival on Thursday.

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Eastern Cape weather warning: Expected storms could become severe

The South African Weather Service (Saws) has issued a yellow level 1 warning for severe thunderstorms in the western half of the Eastern Cape from 2pm today.

Areas to be affected include Willowmore, Addo, Somerset East and Graaff-Reinet.

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Here are five more stories of the day:

• 2025 vehicle licence renewal: Cost by province and cheapest digital routes
• United States terminates legal status for 500 000 immigrants
• Over 30K spaza shop applications were from foreign nationals
• Kaizer Chiefs management backs under fire coach Nabi
• Ramaphosa responds to questions regarding fraudulent marriages involving foreign nationals

Yesterday’s News recap

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